Mesozooplankton communities in the Aegean and Black Seas: A comparative study

Marine Biology

Volumn 144, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1111-1126

  Siokou Frangou, I ^a   Shiganova, T ^b   Christou, E D ^a   Kamburska, L ^c   Gubanova, A ^d   Konsulov, A ^c   Musaeva, E ^b   Skryabin, V ^d   Khoroshilov, V ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^b SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Bulgaria)

^d A O KOVALEVSKY INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY OF THE SOUTHERN SEAS OF RAS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; ZOOPLANKTON;

AEGEAN SEA; BLACK SEA; EURASIA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

ACARTIA; ACARTIA CLAUSII; COPEPODA; MARMARA; PARACALANUS; PARACALANUS PARVUS; PENILIA AVIROSTRIS; PODON; PODON POLYPHEMOIDES;

EID: 3042697429     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-003-1277-3     Document Type: Article

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